The fullness of time -- The church in Jerusalem -- Mission to the Gentiles -- First conflicts with the state -- Persecution in the second century -- The defense of the faith -- The deposit of the faith -- The teachers of the church -- Persecution in the third century -- Christian life -- The great persecution and the final victory -- Constantine -- Official theology : Eusebius of Caesarea -- The monastic reaction -- The schismatic reaction : Donatism -- The Arian controversy and the Council of Nicea -- The pagan reaction : Julian the Apostate -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- The great Cappadocians -- Ambrose of Milan -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Augustine of Hippo -- The end of an era -- The new order -- Eastern Christianity -- Imperial restoration and continuing decay -- Movements of renewal -- The offensive against Islam -- The golden age of medieval Christianity -- The collapse -- In quest of reformation -- Renaissance and humanism -- Spain and the new world -- The Portuguese enterprise -- The call for reformation -- Martin Luther : pilgrimage to reformation -- Luther's theology -- An uncertain decade -- Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- The Anabaptist movement -- John Calvin -- The Reformation in Great Britain -- Further developments within Lutheranism -- The Reformation in the low countries -- Protestantism in France -- The Catholic Reformation -- A convulsed age -- An age of dogma and doubt -- The Thirty Years' War -- The church of the desert -- The Puritan revolution -- Catholic orthodoxy -- Lutheran orthodoxy -- Reformed orthodoxy -- The Rationalist option -- The Spiritualist option -- The Pietist option -- The thirteen colonies -- Political horizons : the United States -- Political horizons : Europe -- Political horizons : Latin America -- Protestant theology -- Catholic theology -- Geographic expansion -- An age of drastic change -- Eastern Christianity -- Roman Catholic Christianity -- Protestantism in Europe -- Protestantism in the United States -- From the ends of the earth. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Published in: Peabody, MA Physical description: 2 volumes in 1 (xviii, 429, xii, 414 pages) : illu

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